RANGIORA MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19850, 20 January 1920, Page 6

RANGIORA MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mr V. G. Day, S.M-. presided at; the Rflngiora Court to-day. ■ For prohibition order breaches George Mnrfitt was fin ad £2 and costs, A. Greeks 20s and costs, and P. J. Costello was ordered to pay costs, Os. L. A. Kindle was fined 20s and costs 7«, for riding his motor-cycle at an excessive speed through the borough. A charge against Janies Quigley of failing to rend his children to school regularly. was adjourned until "March 21Judgment for plaintiff hy default was given in E. H. Taylor (Mr Van Asciit. p. Rogers, claim £3 7s lOd. In a judgment summons case of Golding and Thompson (Mr Tan Asch) v. AT. .1. Pitama, claim £26 Is. an order was made for payment forthwith in default fourteen (lays’ imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended until April 30. At a Juvenile Court sitting a hoy about twelve years of age., charged with the" theft of a hen and eleven eggs valued at £2, was cautioned and discharged. " Air H- F. Nicnil. the newly-appoinl-ed Director of the I'ehonl of Art, will take no his dutieo on April .1. At present ho is in Dunedin. A-cable from Sydney states that the weather is showery, but. the court to bo used in the, Davis Cup tenuis mutch is in good condition. A. lady who bought a half-pound of .tomatoes this morning showed them to a Pressman, complaining that she had been charged 9d for them. She was wide awake, enough to put. them on a pair of scales, and she found that they weighed only six ounces. ’Therefore she “'walked them back’’ to the- shop, and got other goods for her money. She- stated that the goods were weighed in the shop on a spring halau.ee which she did not think was accurate.

At the AlagislravoVCourt this morning before Mr S. K. 'll’Carthy. S.M.. Acia Honor, a middle-aged woman, for whom Mr P. .1. Amodco appeared, w<rs convicted of keeping a house of iii fame at 40, Shrewsbury Street. Merit vale, contrary to the War RegulationAct. Evidence for the prosecution wa>, given by Constable. 10. J. Port-cons, oi Itondalion. and throe neighbours of the accused. Tlie defence was a donini of the allegations. Tho Magistrate, in convicting tho woman, said it was not. a cast: for a- line. He sentenced accused to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

Messrs Lane. Walker and Rudkin Ltd., of the Ashburton "Woollen Milk have announced that they intend paying their employees immediately a 10' per cent bonus on wages paid for the last six months; and that the bonus on wages will be continued for the cominr six months. 3